credit card swipe

credit card swipen.— «I witnessed my first IRFing after a military policeman had performed the “credit card swipe”—pressing his fingers inside a detainee’s buttock crack to look for a weapon.» —“An American in chains” by James Yee Times (London, England) Oct. 9, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

Space Cadet (episode #1514) 12/24/2018: We have books for language-lovers and recommendations for history buffs. • How did the word boondoggle come to denote a wasteful project? The answer involves... [more]